JUMPING AROUND THE RULES.

I recorded an event today on CSPAN, the Senate voted to discontinue debate on the transportation and HUD bill (Senate Bill 1243).  The vote failed.   I recorded it for posterity.   The bill has hundreds of amendments, one of which was amendment 1800.

Purpose:

 To release the City of St. Clair, Missouri, from all restrictions, conditions, and limitations on the use, encumbrance, conveyance, and closure of the St. Clair Regional Airport.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES—113th Cong., 1st Sess.

S. 1243

The democrats were very upset.   This will leave the bill open for more discussion and filibuster.   With the Senate going into a five week recess, aviation organizations will have five weeks to inform the Senate on the amendment 1800.   The person at our legislative affairs office thinks this bill is dead in the water, and will never make it to a vote before the October deadline. 

This amendment was an attempt by the city to use the political process and to try and circumnavigate the rules.   I seems that the city has a problem when it comes to rules.  Instead of trying to learn them and follow them, they just do what they want and then try to double talk their way out of them.   The full amendment will be posted in the near future, this will be the first in a series of post on this subject.